virgin

The definition of a virgin is someone who has no experience in a particular situation.

(noun)

An example of a hockey virgin is someone who has never played hockey or been to a hockey game.
An example of a virgin is a person who has never had sexual intercourse.

Virgin describes someone or something pure, untouched or untainted.

(adjective)

An example of someone who would be described as a virgin is a virgin bride who has never had intercourse and who is innocent and pure.

See virgin in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

1. a woman, esp. a young woman, who has never had sexual intercourse
2. an unmarried girl or woman
a man, esp. a youth, who has never had sexual intercourse
Informal a person who is entirely new to or inexperienced in a specified thing: a stock market virgin
Zool.
1. a female animal that has not copulated
2. a female insect that lays eggs without impregnation by the male

Origin: ME < OFr virgine < L virgo (gen. virginis), maiden: ? akin to virga, slender branch, twig, shoot

adjective

being a virgin
composed of virgins
characteristic of or proper to a virgin; chaste; modest
like or suggesting a virgin because untouched, unmarked, pure, clean, etc.: virgin snow
up to this time unused, unexplored, unworked, undiscovered, etc.: a virgin forest
occurring uncombined in its native form: virgin silver
being the first; initial: a virgin effort
1. obtained from the first pressing, without the use of heat: said of an oil, esp. olive oil
2. obtained directly from an ore or raw material: said esp. of a metal
made without alcohol: said of a drink otherwise prepared like a cocktail: a virgin piña colada

See virgin in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
A chaste or unmarried woman; a maiden.
An unmarried woman who has taken religious vows of chastity.
Virgin The Virgin Mary.
Zoology A female insect or other arthropod that produces fertile eggs without copulating.

adjective